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THe Master 
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Lida A. Churchill 

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Author of 

“The Magic Seven/* ‘ The Magnet," 

"A Grain of Madness," Etc. 






The life which is moving in 
the natural, which is the 
God-appointed, way comes 
in contact with, and com¬ 
mands the use of, those high 
Intelligences and Spirit-in¬ 
formed and vitalized forces, 
of both worlds, which, 
working with infinitely fine 
tools in a medium of un¬ 
explainable potency and 
responsiveness, bring forth 
mightily. 

FIRST EDITION 

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IUL 30 1908 






“Give us something 
concise, consistent and 
adequate,'* is the cry 
of the busy, happiness¬ 
craving world. THE 
MASTER DEMAND 
aims to answer that 
call with precepts born 
of experience and with 
knowledge won by 
waiting on, and work¬ 
ing with, the Force and 
forces which respond 
to earnest demand. 


Lida A . Churchill . 





CONTENTS 


PAGE 


I. How To Speak for Power 9 

II. How To Speak for Adjust¬ 
ment ----- 23 

III. How To Speak for Under- 

standing - - - - 32 

IV. How To Speak for Force 

and Forces - 43 

V. How To Speak for Attrac¬ 
tion - - - - 56 

VI. How To Speak for Plenty 72 

VII. How To Speak for Peace 83 











I. 


HOW TO SPEAK FOR POWER. 

Power is the master possession, the 
root from which all other possessions 
spring. It is as possible to grow a 
plant or to produce a vegetable with¬ 
out bulb or seed as to develop and 
maintain an adequate life without 
power. The powerless man is a hu¬ 
man derelict that is not only drift¬ 
ing aimlessly himself, but is obstruct¬ 
ing the passage along which other 
life barks are steering. 

Every normal, healthy, wholesome 
soul desires power; power to build 
up and to keep a free and signifi¬ 
cant manhood or womanhood, to se¬ 
cure needed financial independence, 


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10 


THE MASTER LEMAND 


to command that clean, high, vitality- 
creating thing, happiness. It is prob¬ 
able that not one person who reads 
these words but would rather be 
thought wicked than weak. Wicked¬ 
ness is positive and proclaims the 
presence of capability; weakness is 
negative and proves the absence of 
efficiency. But while wickedness and 
weakness are directly opposed in their 
character, the results of each are 
much the same. The one causes harm, 
the other permits it. The consequences 
of wickedness and weakness are to 
the individual himself, ultimately, very 
similar. The wicked person sets in 
motion forces which, moving in a 
circle as all forces do, come back to 
make him remorseful and miserable. 
The weak man sets no forces in mo¬ 
tion and, at least, becomes a prey to 
his realization of lost opportunities 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


II 


and the dissatisfaction which a sense 
of unevoked and unused capabilities 
brings. 

If we get at the fundamental truth 
we shall find that wickedness is weak¬ 
ness and weakness is wickedness, since 
each has failed to establish that power 
which is the source and center of hap¬ 
piness. It is man’s imperative duty to 
be happy. Why? Because happiness 
is holiness, wholeness, the cause and 
guarantee of generous thinking, 
wholesome living, right views and re¬ 
gal vitality. All the crimes, all the 
disastrous mistakes, all the bitterness, 
all the real failures—there are so- 
called failures which are real successes 
—come from unhappiness. An entire¬ 
ly happy world would be a safe and 
satisfactory world. 

How is it that while all desire it 
so comparatively few secure the 


12 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


power which is the parent of happi¬ 
ness as happiness is the mother of 
wholeness, fullness, in all departments 
and on every plane of life? One very 
important reason is that they look 
for it, if at all, from the expenditure 
of money, the favor of individuals or 
some lucky combination of circum¬ 
stances—things from which real, sig¬ 
nificant, adequate power never was 
drawn and never will be. 

Science and religion, which are be¬ 
coming more at one every day, agree 
that filling all space, surrounding and 
permeating everybody and everything, 
is an all-pervasive, ever-present, irre¬ 
sistible, inexhaustible Energy, which 
is the life of everything, from the rock, 
with its slow but sure vibrations and 
evolution, to man, who is the highest 
manifestation of life that the earth 
knows. There are different names for 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


13 


this Energy. It is called by some the 
Great First Cause, by others the In¬ 
finite Power, by still others the Abso¬ 
lute, and so on. The best-known, and 
therefore the most adequate, name is 
God. 

It is a theory that one cannot fail 
to prove a fact, if he goes systemati¬ 
cally and intelligently about it and 
keeps at the task, that every person 
with normal faculties and capabilities 
may draw from this storehouse of 
Energy just what he needs, and all 
that he needs, and mold it to his par¬ 
ticular requirements, if he will put 
and keep himself in a position to at¬ 
tract and to receive it. 

Right here may be mentioned a sec¬ 
ond important reason why the num¬ 
ber who receive the power which all 
covet is so comparatively limited. 
Few are willing—mostly from a mis- 


14 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


taken idea of what is demanded—to 
pay the price for it. The Universal 
Supply of Energy has everything that 
man needs or could ask for, but no 
free samples or bargain counters. Its 
goods must be paid for at par value. 
Lowell declares that 

“’Tis only God may be had for the 
asking.” 

True! But God can “be had for the 
asking” only as the goods of a mer¬ 
chant can be had for the asking by 
one who brings something which 
claims these goods. Someone, by 
brain or hand labor, has earned the 
money which is handed over the coun¬ 
ter for the merchandise. As surely 
has someone earned, by a striving 
soul, an aspiring heart, new resolves, 
real repentance, a right-about-face at¬ 
titude from some formerly injurious 
career, or a steady persistence in con- 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


15 


science-taught ways, something which 
can be put forth as a claim upon God. 

There is among thousands of un¬ 
thinking people an idea that by tak¬ 
ing up New Thought teachings one 
can, by little or no effort, secure 
every good and desirable thing, in¬ 
cluding invincible power. What is 
New Thought, and what does it real¬ 
ly teach? New Thought is simply a 
re-statement of the oldest of all spir¬ 
itual thoughts and ideas in a manner 
to make those thoughts and ideas 
stand out clearly and unmistakably as 
that which they actually are; real dec¬ 
larations regarding real power and 
powers, real force and forces, which 
may be used and utilized in every¬ 
thing which concerns real life and 
every life. It emphasizes the truth— 
for it is a truth and a most stimulat¬ 
ing one—that really serving God is 


1 6 THE MASTER DEMAND 

not, as was taught by the old theology, 
not the old religion, holding one’s self 
in a fearful, self-depreciative, gloomy 
and servile attitude before a Power 
too far away to be nearly approached, 
too austere to afford an idea of father¬ 
liness; but growing, certainly, self- 
respectingly, splendidly and joyfully, 
into the great character that com¬ 
mands great power and puts forth 
great force. But nowhere does the 
New Thought, any more than the 
Old, teach that power can be grown 
from any other soil than that of fixed 
principles; that real happiness, which 
is the mother of real wholeness and 
real success, can be the result of any¬ 
thing but the determined and persist¬ 
ent life lived after the God-plan, 
shaped by the God-model. The New 
Thought but makes plain the meaning 
of the Old; that every one must build 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


17 


and establish a power house by build¬ 
ing and establishing a character. The 
rich young man who came to Jesus to 
ask what he should do to “inherit 
eternal life^ was told to sell his goods 
and give to the poor, and to come and 
follow in righteous ways; in other 
words, to do something which would 
turn him from luxurious and self- 
indulgent habits, train his moral mus¬ 
cles, and arouse and stimulate his 
spiritual nature. The Master knew 
that no one could inherit eternal life; 
that it was never to be given away or 
to be handed down from one to an¬ 
other, but must be a thing of becom¬ 
ing, an evolved and paid-for posses¬ 
sion. The price of being powerful is 
growing into power by putting and 
keeping one’s self in an attitude in 
which power can be born and can in¬ 
crease. 


l8 THE MASTER DEMAND 

A point not to be lost sight of is 
that powerlessness, also, has its price; 
and it is a heavy one. Remember that 
life, every life, must move in some di¬ 
rection. Neither Nature nor human 
nature suffers stagnation. The price 
of so ordering, or neglecting, one’s 
life that its general direction is down¬ 
ward is loss of self-respect and con¬ 
sequently the respect of others—for 
no one respects a person who has 
ceased to respect himself—the absence 
of power, peace and prosperity, and, 
therefore, of happiness. The sensible, 
practical, necessary question to ask is: 
Which life will pay? 

The condition in which one may re¬ 
ceive power is simply one of adjust¬ 
ment. In wireless telegraphy there is 
sent out into the ether from a center 
sparks which form long and short 
dashes that represent the Morse alpha- 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


19 


bet. The spark-bearing ether-waves 
go in circles a thousand miles or more 
according to the “fatness,” or volume, 
of the sparks. Any vessel within this 
thousand miles or more range, if it 
has a “coherer,” an instrument to 
gather up and repeat the message, and 
this coherer is adjusted, that is, timed 
and tuned to the sending instrument, 
will receive the telegram just as it is 
sent, clear, distinct, unmistakable. 
Those ships which have no coherer, or, 
having one, have not the instrument 
adjusted, must forego the message 
which they would otherwise receive. 
Before wireless telegraphy came into 
use each year thousands of vessels 
made voyages from shore to shore 
without receiving one word of com¬ 
munication from those on land. Prob¬ 
ably never a passage was made but 
some one on shore had an important 


20 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


and imperative word for a per¬ 
son on board, but no provision had 
been made for the gathering of that 
word, and so making possible the 
good it would have done or the com¬ 
fort it would have brought. The all- 
pervasive, inexhaustible Energy has 
potential messages for every human 
soul, important and imperative words, 
which may lead to significant accom¬ 
plishment, insure needed cheer, direc¬ 
tion and courage, but only he who has 
a coherer, and has it adjusted to the 
Divine Sender, can receive the mes¬ 
sages which make for power, advance¬ 
ment, happiness, wholeness. 

What is the very first step towards 
gaining this power ? The decision 
and determination to have it. “In the 
beginning was the Word.” Of course! 
The creative resolve is the beginning 
of everything. The determination to 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


21 


have power necessarily implies a will¬ 
ingness to come into that attitude and 
those habits of heart, mind, and body 
which will form a coherer and ad¬ 
just one to receive that which he 
personally desires and needs. When 
one has solemnly covenanted with him¬ 
self to have adequate power and to 
pay the price for it, he has spoken 
the word that will, with a steadfast 
heart and continued practice, give him 
that power. 

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

Power is the root from which all 
other possessions spring, and is right¬ 
ly desired by all healthy, wholesome 
souls. It is one’s imperative duty to 
be happy, since happiness is the mother 
of holiness, wholeness, success and 
satisfaction. All crime comes from 
unhappiness. Comparatively few have 


22 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


the power they covet because they look 
for it from wrong sources or are not 
willing to pay the price for it. It 
cannot be inherited, but must be en¬ 
gendered by the establishment of char¬ 
acter. Everything that one desires or 
needs may be drawn from the all-per¬ 
vasive Energy if one will so adjust 
himself, and keep himself adjusted, 
as to receive it. His determination to 
have this power is his word, which 
will, if he keeps his covenant with 
himself, secure it for him. 

Say earnestly once a day: I solemn¬ 
ly covenant with myself to come into, 
and to remain in, the condition where 
I can he adjusted to receive messages, 
help and guidance from the Divine 
Source. I evoke, and will he worthy 
of, and one with, the Power that will 
make my life happy, whole, satisfac¬ 
tory. 


II. 


HOW TO SPEAK FOR ADJUSTMENT. 

How shall one become so adjusted 
to the Divine Sender as to receive 
clearly, strongly, unmistakably the full 
import of His message, the undiluted 
strength of His power? 

The natural life is the adjusted or 
adjustable life, the life into which 
power can pour itself as full-pulsed 
sound can fill the pipes of an organ. 

What is the natural life? It is the 
life that moves simply and sincerely 
along the high road of wholesomeness 
to useful and happy accomplishment; 
along the way Nature, or God, intend¬ 
ed it to move. It is just as natural 
for a normally born person to think 
sane, clean thoughts, to generate moral 


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24 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


emotions, and to be drawn along heart- 
dictated, and therefore effective and 
satisfactory, lines as it is for a river 
to flow undeviatingly from its source 
to its outlet. The habits which befoul 
mind and body, the restlessness and 
vanity that turn the hands to employ¬ 
ment in which the heart has no part, 
the sin which excites and torments 
and tears down, are all acquired, all 
unnatural, and shut out real power as 
filth in the organ pipes would pre¬ 
vent sound from passing through 
them. 

Know for a certainty that the un¬ 
natural life, the life that is seared and 
soiled by unworthy thoughts, bad 
habits and actual sins, and thwarted 
and stultified by work which it has no 
right to attempt, since it cannot do it 
effectively, is the powerless life, be¬ 
cause it is one in which spiritual 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


25 


forces, which are the only real forces, 
cannot operate. The natural life, 
clean, upright, purposeful, with heart 
and hands in joyful comradeship in 
the accomplishment of its life work, is, 
or may be, the powerful, because the 
God-informed and vitalized, life. 

The sinful or misemployed soul is 
like tossing and tumbling water which 
receives from the sun only broken im¬ 
ages and partial and ineffective illu¬ 
mination, while the unsullied and well 
employed life is like the wide-bosomed, 
unfretted lake which receives and re¬ 
flects the direct and most powerful 
rays. It is evident that one cannot 
reflect what he cannot receive, and he 
who is unadjusted to the full-volumed 
power-rays of God can no more make 
them his own than the unadjusted co¬ 
herer can receive the message which is 
pulsing around it. 


26 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


There is a very important truth sug¬ 
gested by all this. The unnatural is 
the unhappy, the natural the happy, 
life. The hilarity and sensational 
emotions which are a part of the “gay” 
life are no more like happiness than 
a rocket is like sunlight. They are a 
part of the tumbling and tossing and 
are therefore barriers to power. Only 
the happy man is the powerful man, 
and only the natural man is the happy 
man. 

Such remarks as these are often met 
with the declaration that one should 
be free to live his life as he pleases. 
The hour will be a priceless one in 
which those who make this declaration 
face the truth that no one is free in 
the sense in which the unthinking 
mind regards freedom. “The truth 
shall make you free.” Free to choose, 
and to come into right relations with, 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


27 


the things or the mode of life that 
shall bind you. For each one of us is 
bound to something or some one. Our 
freedom is in being able to decide to 
what or to whom we shall owe alle¬ 
giance, render obedience; whether we 
shall lead an unnatural and powerless, 
or a natural and powerful, life. “The 
next automobile that runs over me will 
be sorry/' said a tramp. “I've got a 
can of nitroglycerine in my pocket." 
The freedom to live unnatural lives 
which many exercise is the nitrogly¬ 
cerine that destroys them. 

Polarization, or devotion to some 
idea or ideal, is a great law of life. 
Whether one is polarized by the 
worthy and significant or by the un¬ 
worthy and trivial determines whether 
his life is a powerful or powerless one, 
successful or unsuccessful, worth 
something or nothing, or worse than 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


nothing, to the world and those about 
him. Caesar, Cicero and Brutus were 
polarized by the idea that Rome should 
retain and add to her grandeur and 
remain the supreme mistress of the 
world; Cato, by the determination that 
Rome’s great rival, Carthage, should 
be destroyed; Cromwell, by the resolve 
to regenerate England; Luther, by the 
desire that the freedom of the human 
will and the sacredness of individual 
conscience should be respected; Wash¬ 
ington, by the necessity of securing the 
liberty of America; Lincoln, by his de¬ 
termination to preserve the Union; 
Marconi, by his idea of making wire¬ 
less telegraphy possible; Christ by 
the desire to redeem the world. 
These souls, including the Son of 
Man, were no more free than is the 
Nihilist who strikes down rulers and 
spurns the laws of God and man, 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


29 


and so is driven from country to coun¬ 
try, hanged, and regarded as a men¬ 
ace to society and good government, 
thus making of his boasted liberty a 
can of nitroglycerine to become his 
ruin. The allegiance of the former in¬ 
dividuals meant progress and power, 
while the bondage of the latter makes 
for negation and devastation. 

“When the half-gods go the whole 
gods arrive,” says Emerson, and 
Carlyle declares that no man is born 
into the world whose work is not born 
with him. He who is to have power 
will let the half-gods of unnatural 
habits and unordained work go, ^md 
by living the natural life and doing 
the work which was born with him 
will come into a state of equilibrium 
which will enable him to demand and 
command the power from unseen 
sources to be and to do whatever he 
will. 


30 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

One becomes adjusted to the un¬ 
seen power-currents by leading a nat¬ 
ural life. It is perfectly natural for 
a normally born person to think sane, 
clean thoughts and to move along 
heart-dictated ways. Befouling habits 
and the restlessness or vanity which 
leads to a wrong choice of work are 
unnatural and therefore power-pro¬ 
hibiting. The unnatural is the unhap¬ 
py, the natural the happy, life. Only 
the happy man is the powerful man, 
and only the natural man is the hap¬ 
py man. So-called freedom is often 
direst bondage. Polarization, or devo¬ 
tion to a high ideal, is a righteous 
bondage and a great power magnet. 

Repeat the following each day when 
alone, and then go into the silence for 
meditation: I will to adjust myself for 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


31 


the receiving of power by living a 
natural life, sane, wholesome, pure and 
poised, and by doing the work that I 
choose because it has chosen me. I 
now go into the silence asking, and 
expecting to receive, the Power that 
will vitalize me and the Wisdom that 
will guide. 


III. 


HOW TO SPEAK FOR UNDERSTANDING. 

Is this method of obtaining power 
which one can mold to his special 
needs and uses, a practical and demon¬ 
strable one? One that an ordinary 
person can understand by his ordinary 
senses ? 

This proper and legitimate question 
is sure to be asked, and should have 
a satisfactory answer. 

What is a practical thing? It is that 
which serves some useful purpose, 
contributes to the gaining of some de¬ 
sired and desirable end. But it is an 
indisputable fact that many of the 
most demonstrable and practical forces 
—most practical because most surely 
and powerfully serving some useful 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


33 


purpose, contributing to the gaining 
of some desired and desirable end— 
are not yet to be understood by the 
senses, ordinary or extraordinary, of 
anyone on this globe. 

One of the world’s most universal 
and effective servants is electricity, 
but neither of those wizards of the 
lightning, Edison and Marconi, can 
declare what electricity is. Newton 
discovered the action of gravity but 
could give no analysis of the magne¬ 
tism which pulls everyone and every¬ 
thing towards the earth and so keeps 
people and things from flying off in¬ 
to space. Who can explain that great 
commerce-facilitating, alternate swing 
of the waves which we know as the 
tides? What elucidation have we re¬ 
ceived concerning the power that keeps 
the heart beating, the breath going, 
the brain working automatically 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


whether one wakes or sleeps? It is 
easily proved that man’s life and sus¬ 
tenance are dependent upon causes of 
which his senses, aided by all the ac¬ 
quired wisdom and understanding that 
he is able to add, can teach him little 
or absolutely nothing. Willingly or 
unwillingly man must live largely by 
faith. 

But the theory, which to many has 
become positive knowledge, that one 
may, if he will meet the conditions, 
draw just what he needs from the 
great storehouse of Universal Energy, 
is based upon the scientific and many- 
times tested law that “Like attracts 
like”; that is, attracts that which will 
vibrate with it and nourish and aug¬ 
ment its growth. 

From the same plot of earth may 
grow the morning glory, the sun¬ 
flower, the four o’clock and the night- 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


35 


blooming cereus. The morning glory 
will open to the new day blossoms 
so intensely alive in their fresh fragil¬ 
ity that one can almost fancy he sees 
the throb of the flower heart at their 
center, but which will close themselves 
to the heat of the waxing hours. The 
sunflower will keep its steady and 
loyal glow when the sun's rays most 
powerfully burn to its core. In the 
gentler hours of the day’s waning the 
four o’clock opens its petals to their 
perfect life. The cereus, which the 
heat of day would blast and blight, 
sheltered by the protecting darkness, 
unfolds its splendors. From the same 
soil, the same sun, the same at¬ 
mosphere, each of these plants instinc¬ 
tively draws that which is needed for 
its individual evolution and highest 
possible perfection, and so comes to 
its natural and consummate flowering. 


36 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


As truly as the plant finds • and 
draws that which is necessary for its 
growth, symmetry and perfection, may 
every soul find these things if he 
speaks the necessary word, if he “asks 
aright.” 

What is the great primal cause- 
producer in this world ? Thought. 
Behind every created sentiment, emo¬ 
tion or thing is, and ever has been, 
thought held long and strongly enough 
and in sufficiently concentrated form 
to shape and fashion and bring into 
use that sentiment, emotion or thing. 
When the majority of a people of a 
nation is thinking along one line a 
strong national feeling is engendered, 
such as patriotism. War is the re¬ 
sult of the thoughts of thousands of 
people which spread from one to an¬ 
other as flame leaps from blade to 
blade in a prairie fire. Over the coun- 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


37 


try from time to time there goes out 
what is rightly called a crime wave, 
an insanity wave, etc. Through thou¬ 
sands of newspapers and millions of 
tongues the thought of crime or of 
insanity is engendered, and this many- 
times intensified thought finds lodg¬ 
ment in already disordered and in¬ 
flammable minds and results in more 
crime or insanity. In the same way 
waves of noble and significant or fool¬ 
ish thought spread all over a nation, 
or nations, such as the present tem¬ 
perance wave, or the sunflower fever 
which a few years ago burned in so 
many minds, or the farther away hoop 
skirt and “Grecian bend” craze which 
did away with the good sense of so 
many women. A woman’s recent dec¬ 
laration that “Thought is as catching 
as smallpox and holds one in as strong 
a grip,” is literally true. 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


Where is this storehouse of Energy, 
and what does it contain? 

Meeting and mingling with our 
physical world, whose objects and 
sounds we see and hear in part—for 
there are, even here, many objects and 
sounds which we have no senses fine 
enough to perceive—is the, to us, si¬ 
lent, or astral, world, and into the 
wave-bearing ether of both are con¬ 
stantly being poured thoughts and 
ideas from minds of all grades of in¬ 
telligence, the minds of the sages, the 
servers and saviors of mankind who 
have lived and striven and accom¬ 
plished wherever humanity has dwelt 
or dwells. The ether is atmosphered 
not only with the thoughts and ideas 
and ideals of all these, but is sur¬ 
charged with their will power and en¬ 
ergy, which are sent out as aura to 
move in waves, as thought moves. 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


39 


The thoughts of the seen and unseen 
worlds rush to answer the attraction 
of like thoughts, thus forming a bat¬ 
tery from which a tremendous current 
is engendered. In this current one 
has a force that is irresistible. 

No inventor, no chemist, no teacher, 
no writer, no dressmaker, no person 
whose duty or desire it is to invent 
or to create anything, physical or men¬ 
tal, or to find new ways to use or to 
apply old means or methods, and who 
has given any appreciable thought to 
the wished-for accomplishment, but 
has found new ideas and fresh fash¬ 
ioning of old thoughts pouring into 
his brain, and in thousands of cases 
has thus been enabled to bring forth 
results which would once have seemed 
impossible to him; which would have 
been impossible but for the unseen, 
perhaps unrecognized, help received. 


40 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


When one has determined to become 
a master in the work to which he 
has been called by Nature, or God, 
and keeps persistently trying to make 
himself so, he has, according to the 
law of attraction of like for like, made 
a magnet which will inevitably draw 
to him those influences which vibrate 
with him, and which will guide, in¬ 
form and strengthen him. 

What is meant by the declaration 
that “Thoughts are things?” Exactly 
what is said. Clear, well-defined 
thoughts take actual shape and color, 
act with real intelligence, go on real 
errands, accomplish real results. 
Vague fancies and impressions are 
no more thoughts than a towering 
cloud is a castle. 

Any fixed determination persistent¬ 
ly held compels the attendance of 
forces which correspond to itself and 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


41 


the fit conditions for its carrying out. 
When the real word is spoken by the 
real will obedience is inevitable. 

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

Many of the most powerful forces 
are not to be understood by the senses. 
We must live largely by faith. The 
great cause-producer is thought, 
which spreads very rapidly and is ex¬ 
tremely infectious. Thinking steadily 
along a certain line attracts, according 
to the law that “Like attracts like, ,, 
similar thoughts and ideas from the 
great mass of mind-stuff in the phy¬ 
sical and astral worlds, thus making 
a battery from which an irresistible 
force may be generated. Thoughts 
are things and take actual shapes and 
colors, and go forth intelligently on 
actual errands. When the will speaks 
it commands obedience in both worlds. 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


Say in the silence: I will to add to 
my inherent power the power which 
comes from contacting with other 
minds of similar ideas in the visible 
and invisible worlds. I will to be in¬ 
formed, guided, strengthened and pro¬ 
vided for from God's Universal Store¬ 
house of Energy. 


IV. 


HOW TO SPEAK FOR FORCE AND FORCES. 

One important thing to be borne in 
mind by him who is to evolve power 
and to use it as a real factor for real 
accomplishment, is that power is not 
force. Power is static, force is dyna¬ 
mic. Force is power in motion. In the 
power house of an electric railway are 
the dynamos which generate and con¬ 
serve power, but if this power was 
not put in motion no car would move 
along the rails and the power would 
remain useless. 

The story is told of a man living 
far back in a sparsely settled country 
who went one day to the nearest sta¬ 
tion from which he was to take his 
first railroad journey. After two 


43 


44 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


hours the depot master found him still 
standing in the station. “Didn’t you 
buy a ticket to Smithville ?” said the 
agent. “Yes,” was the reply. “Then 
why didn’t you take the train?” said 
the agent. “It left more than an 
hour ago.” “Why,” replied the be¬ 
wildered man, “I thought the whole 
thing went.” 

In the moral and spiritual, as well 
as in the physical, world nothing goes 
without being sent. It is force that 
goes forth from power to accomplish 
results, as it is the car that moves 
from the dynamo to utilize its might. 

A truth that naturally follows and 
should not be lost sight of is that ac¬ 
cording to your power will be your 
force. Little power can send forth 
little force, weak power can generate 
only weak force. Only good power 
can make good force, only strong 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


45 


power strong force, only intelligent 
power intelligent force. It thus be¬ 
comes apparent that if one is to be¬ 
come wisely and vitally forceful he 
must become wisely and vitally power¬ 
ful. Always and everywhere the sup¬ 
ply must, in quantity and quality, de¬ 
pend upon its source. 

What is the practically forceful life? 
It is not a sentimentalism or a vagary, 
but a provable truth, that the prac- 
tically-forceful and forcefully-practical 
life is the life that is lived righteously, 
(rightly), which is informed by God’s 
wisdom and goes with the current of 
God’s laws. If you are taking advan¬ 
tage of, moving with, natural laws, 
which are the laws of the all-pervad¬ 
ing Energy, or of God, you will draw, 
and can utilize, the wisdom, strength, 
power and force which go with the 
current of these laws. If not, any 


46 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


untoward thing may, often will, over¬ 
come you, and whether you temporari¬ 
ly succeed or not, permanent, unas¬ 
sailable success is impossible to you. 
The prow of the fastest vessel is laid 
parallel with the waves. The ade¬ 
quate accomplishment of thousands of 
machines comes from their taking ad¬ 
vantage of the expansion of steam, 
going with it, and so making its 
strength their own. Stand before a 
moving electric car and you will be 
maimed or killed. Seat yourself with¬ 
in it and you will be propelled by the 
same power as itself. One spoke who 
knew when Emerson said: “O, my 
brothers, God exists. There is a soul 
at the center of Nature, and over the 
will of every man, so that none of 
us can wrong the universe. Certainly 
there is a possible right for you that 
precludes the need of balance and wil- 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


47 


ful selection. For you there is a real¬ 
ity and congenial duties. Place your¬ 
self in the middle of the stream of 
power and wisdom which animates all 
whom it floats, and you are without 
effort impelled to truth, to right, and 
a perfect contentment.” 

There is no more success and hap¬ 
piness-destroying idea, no more dis¬ 
astrous decision, than that sometimes 
entertained by an unthinking person 
that he will be a law unto himself, 
will, for the furtherance of his own 
selfish plans, set himself against the 
natural, which is the righteous, 
law. 

A belief that has wrecked or stag¬ 
nated thousands of lives is that one is 
banned and barred out from signifi¬ 
cant becoming and accomplishment by 
his environment, or his lack of edu¬ 
cation, or the absence of present op- 


48 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


portunity; that since circumstances 
have not “put him in the middle of 
the stream/’ instead of his putting 
himself there, that he can never be 
placed there at all. It is, however, an 
indisputable fact that if one could be 
dragged into the middle of the stream 
of power and wisdom—which would 
be impossible, since one must live him¬ 
self into it,—he would smother with 
the current or be left high-and-dry by 
the swift-moving waters. It is he who 
is proof against untoward environ¬ 
ment and who makes a soul environ¬ 
ment of his own as a center from 
which to evolve and to work, who 
stands out from commonplace multi¬ 
tudes as the low-hanging Venus of 
summer nights stands out from other 
stars. Jesus lived and worked in that 
place which had become a by-word 
for vice and wickedness, Nazareth; 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


49 


Florence Nightingale and Clara Bar¬ 
ton have spent a large part of their 
lives among rough soldiers; the daily 
associates of Arnold of Rugby were 
ignorant boys, those of Howard hard¬ 
ened and crime-stained prisoners. As 
the anemone springs from rotting logs 
and the water lily from the reek and 
filth of the stream, so may the de¬ 
termined soul, the soul which has cov¬ 
enanted to have adequate power and 
to send forth adequate force, rise 
above and away from those things 
which are no part of his spirit, and be 
a wiser, more moral and more tran¬ 
scendent individual for the lessons 
they have taught him. The great 
Books of all religions are full of prom¬ 
ises for those who overcome; prom¬ 
ises which actual life bountifully makes 
good. The glory of the rainbow is 
shown by the dark cloud behind it. 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


50 

The bird is not beaten back by the 
wind, but by it its wings are upheld 
and strengthened for long and strong 
flights. Moral muscle is gained by 
rowing against a tide of immorality. 
Man is like the apple tree which re¬ 
ceives only two-tenths of its nourish¬ 
ment from the roots in the earth, the 
remaining eight-tenths from the things 
above the earth, the constituents of the 
air, gases, etc. It is from the upper 
stratas, the energizing, informing 
higher ethers, that he obtains the most 
and best of his nourishment, the 
force-producing power which renders 
him independent of earthly environ¬ 
ment and man-made conditions. 

This suggests a truth that cannot be 
too seriously considered and acted up¬ 
on. We have seen how the atmosphere 
in which we live is crowded with 
thoughts which are real things and 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


51 


which play a very real part in our 
lives. We have also seen that these 
thoughts are attracted by, and aug¬ 
ment and strengthen, those thoughts 
which are of a like nature to them¬ 
selves. Just as surely as there are 
bad and vicious and deceiving people, 
as well as good and honorable and 
frank ones, on the earth, are there bad 
and vicious and deceiving beings in 
the astral world, and from people of 
this type in both worlds come, to those 
who are adjusted to them, dissolute, 
disastrous, disintegrating thoughts and 
influences. Working with the only 
really honorable, effective and ade¬ 
quate Force and forces is as prac¬ 
tical a business and financial measure 
as it is a spiritual advantage. 

When one forms an unshakable de¬ 
cision, and by his attitude and actions 
lives up to that decision, that he will 


52 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


not be held down or hindered by his 
environment or circumstances, but 
will make for himself the one and gov¬ 
ern the other, he draws to his aid and 
enlightenment those forces, in both 
worlds, which will, gradually but sure¬ 
ly, and generally in wholly unexpected 
ways, open to him new means of 
growth, helpful friends, needed knowl¬ 
edge and information, and fresh op¬ 
portunities for unfoldment and ad¬ 
vancement all along the line. 

That power should be transmuted 
into force, action, is necessary for two 
reasons: It is imperative that the 
world’s work be carried forward and 
that each God-appointed task should 
be taken up by each God-appointed 
person, or there is whole or partial 
failure in carrying out the exact de¬ 
tails of the world-plan, in which every 
one has his specified part to perform, 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


53 


and whose failure to perform it creates 
confusion and partial hindrance in the 
working of the universe. Again, every 
man has the right, as well as the ob¬ 
ligation, to experience the uplift, the 
stimulus; the self-respect which make 
for character-evolution and the hap¬ 
piness which is holiness. 

It was the Master of life Himself 
who said: “The kingdom of heaven 
suffereth violence, and the violent take 
it by force.” That is, the God-power, 
the God-force, the guidance and 
strength and intelligence which con¬ 
stitute this kingdom and lead to its 
utilization in all needed ways, are 
yielded to the earnest demand of one 
who will not be denied. 

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

Force is power in motion. Nothing 
goes that is not sent. According to the 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


generating power will be the quantity 
and quality of the force. Only by 
working according to God’s laws can 
one be really successful. Dissolute and 
destroying thoughts and influences are 
attracted by thoughts of like nature 
to themselves. Many are disastrously 
held down and hindered by the belief 
that they are victims of their earthly 
environment. One can make his own 
environment and largely govern his 
own circumstances, and be stronger 
and wiser and better for the untoward 
things he has been obliged to endure 
in working out his deliverance. In 
deciding to be unhindered by his en¬ 
vironment, and in acting up to this 
decision, one draws to his aid, from 
both worlds, those forces which will 
open for him new ways and afford him 
fresh opportunities. The kingdom 
of heaven welcomes the “violent,” the 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


55 


earnest, determined thought, and 
yields to it all that it claims. Thus 
earnest demand cannot be denied. 

Say earnestly when alone: I cove¬ 
nant with God and myself to harbor 
only such thoughts as shall attract 
high, helpful, pure thoughts and in¬ 
fluences, to be superior to any unde¬ 
sirable environment and to control cir- 
cumstances. I will to go with, and 
to utilize, the God-currents in doing 
my own work. I claim, earnestly and 
determinedly, all the power, strength, 
wisdom, guidance and peace that make 
the kingdom of heaven; and I will not 
be denied these things. 


V. 


HOW TO SPEAK FOR ATTRACTION. 

One important reason why a suc¬ 
cessful life must be a natural life, one 
polarized to the place and work which 
belong to it, one moving with the God- 
currents, is that only this life is the 
magnetic, the attracting as well as the 
attractive, life, the life that will draw 
for its uses the necessary supplies. 

The fundamental process of the 
creation and maintenance of any sig¬ 
nificant, permanent and adequate thing 
or system is that of securing sufficient 
inflow to meet the inevitable outflow 
and to leave a reserve fund or bulk. 
Uncounted small streams are gathered 
to make an Amazon or a Mississippi 
River which stretches out its waters 


56 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


57 


to bear vessels of human freight and 
boats of commerce. A bank takes in 
thousands of dollars that it may safe¬ 
ly and profitably lend thousands and 
suffer no depletion. Into every cen¬ 
ter from which there is to be force¬ 
ful radiation, an output which will 
secure effective results, there must 
be poured a steady supply which will 
be inexhaustible. The bed of the Ama¬ 
zon or the Mississippi would soon be 
dry if all streams ceased to flow 
into it; the bank would not long re¬ 
main able to lend money if its de¬ 
posits were cut off. Just as surely as 
the river without tributaries would 
run dry, or the bank without deposits 
would fail, will the soul without at¬ 
tracting and holding sufficient power 
for radiation and reserve fund become 
ineffective, unproductive and wholly 
unsatisfactory. 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


58 


It is a comforting and reassuring 
truth that the natural, the meant-to-be, 
life is the attracting, or the magnetic, 
life. We do not have to struggle and 
strain, or to seek any unusual way or 
unaccustomed place or occupation, in 
order to develop such a life. On the 
contrary, magnetism means the ab¬ 
sence of strain and struggle, and is 
best established and sustained in ways 
made familiar by our moving therein. 
It is no more natural or orderly for 
one to lead a demagnetized, which 
means a disorderly and unsuccessful, 
life than it would be for a star to 
leave its orbit and to hurtle through 
space as a comet. Why is it that “The 
way of the transgressor is hard?” 
Because it is unorderly, unnatural, 
and hence non-attractive and power¬ 
less. In Nature and in human nature 
every unnatural thing which is 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


59 


thought, said or done is punished, not 
in revenge, but because it has broken 
a law which decrees that everyone 
and everything shall go with the 
ordered current of his or its ordered 
life, and so be free, happy, success¬ 
ful, or become mangled or totally 
crushed by going against it. 

The four great constituents of mag¬ 
netism are stillness, steadiness, coher¬ 
ence and order. If a magnet is ap¬ 
plied to two boxes of steel or iron 
nails, in one of which every nail lies 
straight and points in the same di¬ 
rection as every other, and in the other 
the nails are simply thrown in and 
point in every direction, the nails 
which are arranged in order will each 
be magnetized and will itself become 
a magnet, while the contents of the 
disorderly box will remain entirely 
without magnetism. If the box of 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


magnetized nails, or any magnetized 
thing, is allowed to fall to the floor, 
or receives a violent shock, the mag¬ 
netism is immediately and completely 
dissipated. 

When the compass points steadily 
to the North the captain knows how 
to steer the ship into right channels 
or to bring it safely to shore, but any¬ 
thing which deflects the needle—which 
is very susceptible to foreign sub¬ 
stances, or those that do not naturally 
vibrate with it—may cause it to lead 
the vessel astray with sometimes dis¬ 
astrous results. “That thing,” said 
a man shaking a tin lantern, “sent my 
yacht almost onto the rocks last sum¬ 
mer. It was near the compass and 
changed the direction of the needle be¬ 
fore anyone discovered what it was 
doing. The pilot steered by the dis¬ 
arranged compass, and we came 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


61 


mighty near being brought up with 
a round turn.” 

In the case of the disordered nails 
or the deflected compass the magnetic 
current is not allowed to pass along 
the natural, straight, empowering way, 
but is broken and dissipated by the 
zigzag direction in which it is sent. 

The scientific law whose workings 
are demonstrated in the case of the 
nails or the compass is just as clearly 
shown in the magnetism and demag¬ 
netism of a life. In the haphazard 
existence which has no general direc¬ 
tion, or which allows itself to be 
thrown violently about or constantly 
deflected from its natural way by peo¬ 
ple or things which are foreign to it, 
the Divine Energy, or Magnetism, 
does not find the straight, or orderly, 
path through which it can flow with 
empowering force, or, having found 


62 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


this orderly way and entered it, it is 
broken and dissipated and sent into 
zigzag ways by disorderly or violent 
emotions or acts. 

A moment’s reflection will convince 
you that you have never seen a per¬ 
son who was erratic in action, spas¬ 
modic in speech, uncertain in moods, 
whose thoughts and resolves habitu¬ 
ally moved one way to-day and an¬ 
other to-morrow, who was often vio¬ 
lent in feeling or conduct, who was 
magnetic or who drew to himself the 
desired and desirable conditions of ex¬ 
istence. 

A thing which should be especially 
guarded against as a magnetism pre¬ 
venter or destroyer is hatred or hard 
feelings towards another. 

“I shall never rest till I get even 
with that fellow,” said a young man 
a few years ago, speaking of his 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


63 


brother-in-law. “He did all he could 
to keep his sister from marrying me, 
and now that she’s my wife he don’t 
like me a little bit. But I’m a good 
hater and never lose a chance to let 
him see that I’m master of the situa¬ 
tion.” 

One cannot make a mistake more 
disastrous in results than to suppose 
that because he is a “good hater” he 
is master of any situation or of him¬ 
self. By hate one is enslaved and 
robbed of all mastery. When Jesus 
taught that one should love his ene¬ 
mies—that is, harbor no unkindly feel¬ 
ings towards them—and pray for 
those that despitefully used him, he 
was not uttering a mere sentimental¬ 
ity or unpractical advice, but giving 
to the world a rule by which one may 
turn aside the shafts of ill will, which 
mar and rend and destroy, and attract 


6 4 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


to himself instead those high, subtle, 
powerful Force and forces which will 
act for his upbuilding instead of for 
his destruction. Since the very life 
of magnetism is love, and the law that 
like attracts like holds good, no person 
with hate in his heart can be, at best, 
more than an intermittent and im¬ 
perfect magnet. There is no stillness, 
steadiness, coherence or order, the 
four great constituents of magnetism, 
to the hating life. It is like the hail- 
pelted surface of a lake, continually 
tormented and tortured by sharp and 
cutting impacts which, as long as the 
storm continues, destroy its natural 
beauty and power of reflection. The 
soul that is tormented and tortured 
by hate is never free to show forth 
its natural beauty, never still enough 
to reflect God or to make an orderly 
channel for His magnetism. 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


65 


The young man alluded to, who 
could “never rest till he had 'got even’ ” 
with his brother-in-law, became con¬ 
stantly wweven with himself and all 
humanity, as all “good haters” do. 
His treatment of her brother did much 
to alienate his wife’s affections, and 
she finally divorced him. One hate 
drew to him many other hates until 
friction and inharmony became the 
rule of his life. He at last went down 
to a suicide’s grave, victim where he 
had fancied himself master. 

In this and in thousands of other 
cases is again emphasized the fact that 
one must go with the God-currents, 
not against them, if he would be suc¬ 
cessful and happy rather than crushed 
and miserable. God has commanded 
and all great Teachers have urged that 
love be the law of life, and because 
it is the law, the observance and prac- 


66 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


tice of which mean power, prosperity 
and peace, to indulge in and practice 
its opposite, hate, is like standing be¬ 
fore a moving electric car or row¬ 
ing across an irresistible current. The 
result is mangling or destruction. 

Again, and still according to the 
law of the attraction of life for like, 
as surely as thoughts of love, or of 
anything else, draw thoughts and in¬ 
fluences of like nature to themselves, 
so do thoughts of hate and ill feel¬ 
ings attract to themselves other 
thoughts and influences which goad 
and pester and exasperate until the 
power of calm reasoning and comfort¬ 
able enjoyment is gone; and when one 
cannot calmly reason and comfortably 
enjoy, he has ceased to be happy, and 
hence sane, and actually or potentially 
successful. 

Another fact connected with hatred 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


67 


should be far more generally known 
for the protection of mankind and the 
safeguarding of his happiness; that 
happiness which means his holiness 
(wholeness) and hence his success 
along every line of his being. 

We have found that thoughts are 
actual things; things that take actual 
shapes and go forth on actual errands. 
Thoughts of hate and malice and re¬ 
venge take barbed, pointed or jagged 
shapes and lurid colors, and go swiftly 
and surely to those to whom they are 
directed, often with the result of caus¬ 
ing illness or producing disaster, 
which, in turn, produce more inhar¬ 
monious thoughts and unhappy mind 
attitudes. If, as often happens, the 
baleful thought is not received by the 
one to whom it is sent—who may be 
too securely protected by his own good 
thoughts or the good will of others, 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


or may be too positive to be receptive 
—it rebounds back to its sender with 
redoubled force, making him its vic¬ 
tim. The “good hater” never has ro¬ 
bust health,, a happy heart, or a joy¬ 
ous nature. There is utmost truth in 
the lines: 

“Joy will not mate itself with wrong,„ 
The bird of prey ne’er has a song.” 

When one has made a home for 
hateful and malicious thoughts they 
will take up their abode there, mak¬ 
ing impossible all magnetic attraction. 

It is thus easy to see that the way 
of kindness, of good feeling for all, 
of a right mental attitude toward all 
things and all people, are simply prac¬ 
tical necessities to him who is to mag¬ 
netize his life and make it a success 
on all planes of his being, spiritual, 
moral, physical. 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


69 


The life that is still from within 
outward, not from apathy or dis¬ 
couragement, but because of conscious 
power, confident faith and a constant 
realization of the indwelling of the 
Holy Spirit and the radiation of His 
might, is the magnetic, and hence the 
successful and happy, life, the life 
whose reserve power will be all the 
greater the more power it puts forth 
as force, whose inflow will always 
be more than commensurate with its 
outflow, whose funds will never suf¬ 
fer depletion. 

Let him who is to build a power 
house from which result-bringing 
force may go forth, and who must 
therefore have a magnetized life, be¬ 
gin with the things nearest at hand 
that need striking out or strengthen¬ 
ing, and keep on till the Divine En¬ 
ergy, or Magnetism, flows to him and 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


through him as water through river 
grasses or mist through rain. 

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

Into every center from which there 
is to be adequate radiation must be 
poured a supply which will furnish 
the outflow and leave a reserve fund 
or bulk. This inflow must be attracted 
by an ordered, regular life which 
habitually moves in the natural direc¬ 
tion and does not deflect or zigzag, and 
so render ineffectual, the Divine Mag¬ 
netism which would otherwise em¬ 
power it and make it successful and 
happy. Erratic actions, spasmodic 
speech, irregular movements are all 
magnetism preventers or destroyers. 
Hate is directly opposed to the law 
of God, which is love, and is the most 
zigzagging, power-preventing, happi¬ 
ness-hindering thing in life. He who 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


71 


tries to “get even” with others and 
is a “good hater,” gets uneven with 
himself and all humanity, and, if his 
hate continues, makes practical success 
and happiness impossible. Into the 
life that moves with the God-currents 
magnetism pours as water through 
river grasses or mist through rain. 

Repeat during meditation time: I 
will that my life shall go with the 
God-currents in an ordered and order¬ 
ly direction, with no erratic actions, no 
spasmodic speech, no deflecting and 
zigzagging moods and emotions, no 
thoughts of hardness or feelings of 
hate towards any one . I will that in 
me the magnetic current shall find a 
straight path, and so shall draw all 
desired and desirable things, conditions 
and people unto me. 


VI. 


HOW TO SPEAK FOR PLENTY. 

“Mebbe he’s right,” said a woman 
after listening to a preacher who de¬ 
clared that poverty and denials of all 
kinds and from whatever cause were 
just what God meant and desired for 
His children. “Mebbe he’s right, but 
somehow I can’t abide the idea of a 
scrimping God.” 

In the Book of many great truths 
there is no truth easier of proof or 
more continually proved than the one 
which declares that “The destruction 
of the poor is their poverty.” Any¬ 
thing which makes for unhappiness 
makes for destruction. Sordid sur¬ 
roundings, lack of food or unnourish¬ 
ing food, insufficient or ill-fitting 


72 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


73 


clothing, these and all the other at¬ 
tributes and results of real poverty, 
degrade the intellect, stultify the im¬ 
agination, depress vitality, throw one 
out of adjustment, thus rendering him 
unable to become a coherer for those 
things which the Divine Energy sends 
forth for his gathering. Resigna¬ 
tion to belittling and benumbing pov¬ 
erty shows lack of understanding or 
laziness of will. The heart of the 
rightly constituted person turns in¬ 
stinctively from any “scrimping” or 
scrimpy person or thing. Every soul 
naturally, and hence rightly, demands 
plenty. 

What is plenty? When the word 
is spoken nearly every one thinks of 
money; and yet money, by itself, is no 
more plenty than a fish hook is a 
fish. Our prisons, insane asylums, di¬ 
vorce courts, and the vice and profli- 


74 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


gacy in thousands of so-called high 
places, leave no room for doubt that 
as surely as the destruction of the 
poor is their poverty, so, over and 
over again, is the destruction of the 
rich their riches. Plenty is no more 
found among those who are destroyed 
by too much money than among those 
who are destroyed by too little. One 
has learned a great truth, and one that 
he must learn before he can come in¬ 
to happiness, wholeness and whole¬ 
someness, when he realizes that it is 
only inherently valuable things that 
give uninherently valuable ones worth 
and significance. 

Money has no inherent value. If 
one were confined to a place from 
which there was no access to the com¬ 
modities of life, a quart of flour would 
be worth more to him, more nearly 
represent plenty, than a ton of gold. 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


75 


The miser has gold but not the in¬ 
herently valuable emotions and traits 
which, with his material means to ex¬ 
press them, would constitute for him 
plenty. In the hands of one who lacks 
the ingredients of real plenty, wis¬ 
dom, guidance, justice, kindness, gen¬ 
erosity, practicality, pure-heartedness, 
constant touch with God—by whatever 
name he may call God—money, to 
which only the stamp of the govern¬ 
ment which issues it gives value as a 
medium of exchange, is no more safe, 
for himself or others, than is a razor 
in the hands of a child. As surely as 
the issuing government must put its 
stamp upon its coin, must righteous¬ 
ness (rightness) imprint itself upon 
the things of the world to make them 
of real value. “He was an all-round 
good fellow when he was poor and 
ambitious, and hammering away at the 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


work he loved to pull himself up/’ 
said one of a young man of his ac¬ 
quaintance, “but unfortunately he one 
day drew fifty thousand dollars from 
the Louisiana lottery, and as soon as 
the money was paid to him he began 
the course that ended in his ruin. 
He drank and gambled and did still 
worse things, and died of delirium 
tremens, a charity patient in his own 
city.” 

Who shall doubt that the sober, am¬ 
bitious young man, striving to raise 
himself to a significant position by 
following his God-appointed, and 
therefore magnetic, way, had not 
plenty rather than the man who by a 
gambler’s luck gained a gambler’s for¬ 
tune and lost all that might have made 
the fortune of value ? 

Plenty is that which makes a life 
high, clean, adequate, happy; makes 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


77 


it to be lived by law, to go with, and 
be magnetized by, the God-currents. 

Many a life is given plenty by tem¬ 
porary deprivations and denials. 
Watching an experienced gardener cut 
back the sprouting twigs and spring¬ 
ing tendrils of a growing tree, the 
uninformed would say that he was 
ruthlessly destroying the tree’s lux¬ 
uriance and detracting from its 
strength. The gardener would declare 
that the unneeded twigs and tendrils 
would exhaust the sap and absorb the 
nourishment that should be utilized 
in making the sturdy trunk and fruit¬ 
bearing branches which constitute the 
tree’s plenty. So in thousands of 
lives the character-destroying sin, the 
spirituality-exhausting excesses, the 
kindness-preventing arrogance which 
money had made possible, have been 
cut back and stripped away by the 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


seeming cruelty of property losses, or 
severe sickness, or chastening bereave¬ 
ment. Blessed are they, and their 
number is uncountable, who recognize 
the truth that they have eternally 
gained the kingdom of heaven to 
which all things shall be added by 
temporarily losing all uninherently 
valuable things. 

“Have you still money enough to 
live on?” a friend asked a man who 
had lost by a decline in stocks. “Yes,” 
was the reply, “plenty now to live 
on. Before the smash in stocks I 
had enough to die on, and I realize 
that, with its help, I was dying daily to 
a clean life, a white heart and an up¬ 
right manhood. Thank God the dying 
supply has been cut off and I’ve been 
shown that it was a dying supply.” 

This man had come to gain plenty 
by that which would generally be 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


79 


looked upon as the loss of plenty. The 
inherently valuable had stamped that 
which was uninherently so and had 
given it significance. 

Iron which is to be used for razors, 
fine cutlery, etc., must be greatly ham¬ 
mered. Rolled iron is used only for 
commonplace implements and coarse 
tools. Sometimes a white soul comes 
under apparently cruel hammering be¬ 
cause he is selected as potentially fine 
enough to serve as one of the Mas¬ 
ter’s subtlest and most significant tools. 

A man went to the president of the 
United States to plead for free pas¬ 
sage for Art. From his pocket he 
took a cup which he declared had been 
bought for the sum of ten cents, but 
whose decoration had cost twenty-five 
hundred dollars. God spares no pains 
when the human is to be glorified into 
the divine, and the dark as well as the 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


bright colors show the design of the 
great Artist. There must be no tin¬ 
sel ; all must be real gold in the soul’s 
enamel. There must be no fading 
hues, but fast colors firmly fixed by 
fierce firing, no spasmodic and erratic 
daubing or splotching, no unfinished 
particle, no unglowing space. The 
soul of inherently valuable plenty is a 
thing of exquisite workmanship. Such 
a soul may rightfully, and with the 
full assurance of its large demand 
being largely met, claim from the 
eternal Storehouse of Supply the 
plenty that will meet every need for 
adequacy, wholeness, happiness. 

How much of beauty, suggestive¬ 
ness and stimulus would the world 
have lacked had the uninherently 
beautiful constituted the only plenty! 
Great art, great literature, great 
operas, great plays come from great 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


81 


actions, and the plenty of great ideas 
and ideals, of the natural, energized, 
harmonized, effective and magnetic 
life, was that of which these actions 
were the expression. 

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

“The destruction of the poor is their 
poverty/' The soul instinctively and 
rightly repels the idea of “scrimpi- 
ness.” Anything which makes for un¬ 
happiness, such as sordid surround¬ 
ings, insufficient or unnourishing food, 
unsuitable or ill-fitting clothing, de¬ 
grade the intellect, stultify the imag¬ 
ination, depress vitality, and keep one 
out of adjustment for those things 
which the Divine Energy sends out. 
Resignation to belittling poverty shows 
lack of understanding or laziness of 
will. Money is no more plenty than 
a fish hook is a fish. Many times the 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


destruction of the rich is their riches. 
It is only inherently valuable things 
that make uninherently valuable ones 
significant and of worth. Plenty is 
that which makes a life clean, high 
and happy. Often uninherently valu¬ 
able things are taken away that the 
inherently valuable ones may come. 
When one has these inherently valu¬ 
able things he has real plenty, and may 
claim and receive what he will from 
the Storehouse of Universal Supply. 

Say in the silence: I will to have 
the inherently valuable plenty of wis¬ 
dom, guidance, love, cleanness of mind 
and clearness of brain, purity of heart 
and purpose, and the magnetism of an 
ordered life, which will cause my de¬ 
mand to meet a full response from the 
Storehouse of Universal Supply. 


VII. 


HOW TO SPEAK FOR PEACE. 

Peace, which is life’s capstone and 
crown, is not torpor or resignation, 
but a most vital and effective thing, 
the very core of power. At the center 
and source of every dynamic and ade¬ 
quate force is peace. A power center 
must be a peace center. 

The heart and pulse of the sea are 
not the tumbling rollers or seething 
surf, but the places where the mighty 
vibrations give no hint of tumult or 
sign of storm. In unnumbered manu¬ 
factories are heard the din of flying 
wheels and dashing machinery, while 
back in the engine room is a noiseless 
dynamo with motions so rapid as to 
give the appearance of no action at all. 


83 


8 4 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


Power and potential force are never in 
the din and clash of life, but in the 
noiseless center of being whose vibra¬ 
tions are so rapid as to give the im¬ 
pression of negation. 

Most significant were those words 
of Jesus: “My peace I give unto you; 
not as the world giveth, give I unto 
you. Let not your heart be troubled, 
neither let it be afraid.” The Master 
knew that in giving to those few men 
His peace, the peace that comes from 
an untroubled heart, the quietness, sta¬ 
bility and faith which are the result of 
believing in, and leaning on, invisible 
powers, so different from the so-called 
peace of worldly minds which is only 
temporarily and insecurely established 
by seemingly favorable conditions and 
which changes with these conditions, 
that He was establishing a power 
from which should go forth the force 


THE MASTER DEMAND 85 

that should regenerate life through all 
the coming ages. 

He who is to be most effective for 
his own good or the good of others, 
must be he who stands spiritually quiet 
above the boil and bubble and bluster 
of the seen and unseen worlds. On 
the highest point of a mountain range 
stands “The Christ of the Andes,” a 
lofty bronze figure, pledge of eternal 
peace between Chili and Argentina. 
When Valparaiso and Santiago were 
so nearly destroyed by earthquake this 
statue stood too high and firm to be 
affected by the catastrophe below it. 
It is not a figure of speech or a senti¬ 
mentality, but a tremendous fact which 
has a significant and practical bearing 
upon everyday life, that one may, must 
if he is really and largely to succeed, 
build on his soul’s heights a place of 
peace; a quiet, centered, thinking, will- 


86 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


ing, trusting place from which fear 
and doubt and despondency are shut 
out, which shall be his place of crea¬ 
tion, his center of power, his dynamic 
force-producer. 

The unstable man is the unsuccess¬ 
ful, sometimes the unsafe, man; the 
uncentered man is the unsatisfied and 
unsatisfying man. Just as it is the 
established house that commands the 
most and the best business, so it is the 
established heart, the heart grounded 
upon, and saturated with, peace, that 
draws to itself the power which it 
sends forth as force to accomplish its 
will. The old proverb, “A rolling 
stone gathers no moss,” is a sugges¬ 
tive one. The moral, or unmoral, 
tramp, who has no spiritual or mental 
home, no well-grounded habits of 
mind or body, no certain choice in the 
matter of work, who “just happens 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


87 


along” in the path of life, gathers 
nothing, least of all peace which is 
power. One accomplishes only in the 
place in which he lives in body, brain 
and spirit. 

A great help in the attainment of 
peace is the habit of never allowing | 
incidents to masquerade as events. / 
Burn it into your consciousness that 
nothing can destroy or long disturb 
your peace unless you consent to it. 
That famous rule of Pythagoras, 
“That which concerns me I will at¬ 
tend to; that which concerns me not 
I will leave alone,” is for everybody a 
most necessary one. The slurs, or 
shrugs, or insinuations, or even the 
malicious falsehoods, of slightly- 
evolved people; the losing of an orna¬ 
ment or the soiling or rending of an 


article of clothing; the breakage, by 
one’s self or another, of so-called valu- 


88 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


able china or bric-a-brac—these and 
unnumbered other things are con¬ 
stantly destroying the equilibrium, the 
harmony, the peace, and therefore the 
power and possible force, of thou¬ 
sands of people. These are incidents 
which will as quickly pass and be for¬ 
gotten as the mists of morning, and 
do not any more “concern” the real 
you , which is the only you that should 
command your serious attention, than 
a fly buzzing in the sun should absorb 
hours of your thought. One has 
made a long step in advance when he 
has decided, and is each day living as 
nearly as possible according to that 
decision, that the non-essentials of life, 
of whatever nature, shall be left alone 
or shall receive only the attention due 
to passing incidents. 

An important reason why one 
should attain to a poised and peaceful 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


89 


state is that in such a state he attracts, 
according to the always-acting law 
that “Like attracts like,” poised, pow¬ 
erful and effective Force and forces 
from the seen and unseen worlds. 
The moral tramp, the “rolling stone” 
character, is further weakened and 
disintegrated, made still more ineffec¬ 
tive, by the swarming thoughts of 
others like unto himself. Just as surely 
is the established heart more firmly 
established, the balanced mind more 
finely balanced, the poised, peaceful 
and powerful soul more certainly 
poised, peaceful and powerful, because 
of the reinforcement of those thoughts 
and influences, in both worlds, to 
which they are akin. 

Another important truth, which is 
also a very encouraging one, is that he 
who works with righteous tools, high, 
pure, unselfish thoughts, steady and 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


worthy purpose, unremitting zeal, in 
ordered directions, handles, and se¬ 
cures the results of, much finer and 
more effective instruments than the 
moral tramp. The day laborer per¬ 
forms with blunt and clumsy pick or 
shovel his commonplace task which is 
without special significance, while the 
trained electrician or chemist, work¬ 
ing with instruments of utmost fine¬ 
ness, or fluids and gases of non- 
understandable potency and potential¬ 
ities, shows forth results which may 
go far towards revolutionizing a na¬ 
tion or changing the beliefs of a 
world. So vague, splintered, foggy 
or evil thoughts, and the spasmodic 
actions of a life that goes against or 
athwart the God-currents, work with 
coarse, blunt tools in a dense, murky, 
medium. The result is chaos or nega¬ 
tion. The life which is moving in the 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


91 


natural, which is the God-ordained, 
way comes in contact with, and com¬ 
mands the use of, those high Intellects 
and Spirit-informed and vitalized 
forces, of both worlds, which, work¬ 
ing with infinitely fine tools in a me¬ 
dium of unexplainable potency and 
responsiveness, bring forth mightily. 

What, in concrete form, is the real 
definition of peace ? Peace is the 
soul’s acclimation to a perfect trust in 
God; in the Great Force, called by 
any name one chooses, which is al¬ 
ways able, willing and ready to meet, 
and minister to, its demands; a trust 
proved reliable by him who has met 
and is meeting the practical require¬ 
ments of righteousness, and is thus a 
magnet which commands all things. 
The soul’s acclimation is the soul’s 
destiny. 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

Peace, which is life’s capstone and 
crown, is not torpor or resignation, 
but the vitally-alive and effective core 
of power, the source and center of 
force. The most effective soul is the 
one that stands quiet above the boil 
and bubble of the world. The un¬ 
stable man is the unsatisfied and un¬ 
satisfying man. The moral tramp 
who has no home gathers nothing, 
least of all peace. One accomplishes 
only in the place in which he lives. 
He who is to have peace must not al¬ 
low incidents to masquerade as events, 
and so throw him out of equilibrium. 
One important reason why one should 
be peaceful is that in this state he at¬ 
tracts peaceful, poised and effective 
forces to himself. He who works 
with righteous tools, high thoughts, 
steady purpose, unremitting zeal, in 


THE MASTER DEMAND 


93 


ordered directions, handles, and se¬ 
cures the results of, much finer imple¬ 
ments than the moral tramp. The 
life moving with the God-currents 
commands the use of those high Intel¬ 
lects and Spirit-vitalized forces, of 
both worlds, which, working with in¬ 
finitely fine tools in a medium of un¬ 
explainable potency and responsive¬ 
ness, bring forth mightily. Peace is 
the soul's acclimation to that peaceful, 
poised and powerful state which is 
made possible by a constant and un¬ 
wavering trust in the great Force 
which is able, ready and willing to 
meet its demands; a trust proved re¬ 
liable by him who has met the require¬ 
ments of practical righteousness and 
has thus made himself a magnet to 
draw whatever he will. The soul’s 
acclimation is the soul’s destiny. 


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THE MASTER DEMAND 


Say once a day when quite alone: 
I will, by an ordered, zealous, God- 
informed life, to acclimate my soul to 
that place of peace which is the source 
and center of power. I will that noth¬ 
ing shall keep this peace from me or 
shall destroy or disturb it. I will to 
come into constant touch with those 
high forces of both worlds which are 
invincible and which will assist me to 
become invincible . 














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